Mingle - Monster High Valentines Dance

[lil_tanuki]

Welcome to Monster High’s first Valentine’s Open House!

With the news that their World had become connected to the outside world, the Ghouls had been expecting the newcomers. Changed by magic, or coming as themselves to protect the World Order, these newcomers are coming for the dance.

Draculaura welcomes the newcomers with a warm smile, as Frankiestein, Cleo de Nile, Lagoona Blue, Clawdeen Wolf and Fangelica VanBat are leading up the festivities as the staff are milling about.

At the turn of the hour, the principal Dracula taps a microphone. “Thank you for coming, Monsters, Normies, and World Hopping friends. This is a momentous occasion, one that would mark a new time for cooperation for our people. One can hope that we are going to have a better understanding of our friends from across the Worlds.”

Stepping aside, Draculaura took up the microphone. “And now, let’s get the party started! Let me introduce our guest of the evening, returning celeb Ari Hauntngton!”

"Monster High|Welcome To Monster High "We're The Monstars" [Clip]" (Watch on YouTube)

Welcome to Monster High, the world is welcoming everyone tonight! Dance the day and night away!

This is an open mingle to get to know your fellow characters, cast mates and interactions in the world, and rekindle some old CR over a night. Have some fun!

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Apple White-Amaryllis | Ever After High | OTA

[cidery]

Apple had decided a little shapeshifting was in order, and thus she had given herself the features of a Pikachu. She was grinning as she added her own touches, setting down a plate of food as she had been tapped as caterer from Ever After.

[dandeliongirl]

The thing was, Kotomi had become an exchange student, and didn't fully understand or comprehend what was going to happen to her the moment she moment she took residence in this world, particularly the fact she would slowly transform.

Having explained that, it wasn't that Kotomi chose to be the growing, purple-lizard-tailed, dragon-horned girl that had entered as a human into the institution. Rather, it was the draconic nature what chose Kotomi through magic, changing her little by little with each passing week. Her desire to hoard books was just the hook that made the magic pick that coming form.

It was why Kotomi smiled sweetly to what was probably a schoolmate fiven the ears this person had, carrying her own plate of personally-cooked food and brewed tea, smiling to Apple.

She bowed to Apple, lifting the purple tail that had appeared on her, and was turning longer with each passing week. "Bonjour. Hola. Marhaba. Hallo. Konnichiwa. Ni hao. Hello..."

And she goes on like that, as she sees which language do the students in here speak.

[cidery]

Apple recognized several of those languages, English, Korean, Japanese, French, Chinese, German, but she smiled and said, "Good day, are you enjoying the dance today?"

She was wondering if Kotomi was a native to this world or one of the new arrivals. People were traveling to different worlds all the time, and this world had been recently connected as of late. "The party just started."

[dandeliongirl]

With the recognition of one of the languages, Kotomi blinked, and straightened back up, hands over her lap. Her tail lowered a little behind her.

"Hn!" Kotomi nodded, "I admit I do not know a lot of the classmates I will have for my year in here. I am a new arrival under a student exchange program with Hikarizaka High."

[cidery]

"Oh! Then you must have been connected earlier then to this World," replied Apple in surprise. "Or you existed on this World too You heard Principal Dracula then, that many of the attendees are visitors from Other Worlds correct? I'm one of them."

She smiled charmingly, offering a hand in greeting. "I'm Apple White, from Ever After. I'm charmed to meet you."

[dandeliongirl]

Kotomi was about to note that she was familiar with Dracula. At least, with Bram Stoker's version in his famous book, the long hunt that took place, the various means and powers which he had to transform into a cloud of bats, the forbiddance from being invited into other worlds...

... which was a stark contrast with the polite, courteous program that immediately began the moment both worlds connected, for which Kotomi took the chance to learn more of the personal rules of physics of this particular world.

Kotomi took her hand, and bowed, "my name is Kotomi Ichinose. I am an exchange student from Hikarizaka High. My hobby is reading books. I would like to become friends with you," she says in a practiced tone, before rising back up, the tip of her tail wagging a little underneath her skirt, "I am a little familiar with what I read from the pamphlets and books in here."

[cidery]

"Yes, I get that feeling," said Apple with a little light giggle. "Where I come from, the story of Dracula is a forbidden tale, hidden away with the stories of ghouls, ghosts and goblins. My people aren't ready for that kind of stories but we're working on it. My world is all about fairy tales and formerly following an endless cycle of following your story."

A long story which almost ended in tears to be honest, but Apple found her happily ever after with Amelie. "That being said, I'd love to be friends with you, Kotomi. I hope we can get along, since I love to read books as well."

She smiled widely for a moment, before asking, "What else have you learned here at Monster High? Tell me please!"

[dandeliongirl]

Forbidden knowledge... Kotomi had read the tales of H.P. Lovecraft, and she did see the occasional tentacle monster squirming around, but such a thing seemed almost alien to her. As José Arcadio had said, Everything is known.

She found her heart skip a beat when she held hands with Apple, tail lifting up in joy. She would collect books for her new friend.

"I learned about the biological processes taking place in many individuals coming from other worlds which is triggered by a certain genetic and cellular condition that is known as invasive magic-environmental mutation, with the magic acting on the body depending on the genetic and psychological factors that influence the kind of form that they take."

Kotomi says all of that in a single breath and without pause. But what she does wonder about, when she turns her head to her side to lift her reptilian tail up to her height to wave it, Kotomi then says.

"I do not know if the mutation is temporary."

[cidery]

Yes collect all the books for Apple, she would love them.

"Oh yes, that's the process I heard about! It's called Blending In. It can be triggered normally or automatically and can be completely random or adjusted at any point. It's why I look like a Pikachu to be honest. I'm influenced by a friend's Pokemon."

Her ears twitched as she added, "Gaining characteristics is also because we want to blend in and preserve the world order, instead of causing a panic too for other people. Imagine if you were say, a twenty foot robot arriving in a world where people are sheep, correct? You would transform into a sheep to blend in."

[dandeliongirl]

Kotomi nodded, "it is mostly an adaptive process for both the world and the subject, which some worlds allow so the culture shock may not be as extreme."

But, the concern still remained in her mind. The frills that were now her ears twitched as she lowered her tail, "with that said... not all worlds have it. And in the same way a living being adapts according to circumstances to deeply change its physiology, a body can become too imbued with the magic that caused said mutations. In some people remaining permanently."

[cidery]

"That's right. Some worlds are more forgiving, and some worlds are more populated by humans, rather than monsters, toys or the like. Each world is different in their own unique way."

She nodded at that. "Some of them yes. If I would stay for a long period of time, I would most certainly have to adapt more permanently in order to blend in. Or adjust in order to keep more of a better lid on things. Though I'm also a Gem, a sort of crystalline being with a projection for a body, so I can reshape my body as need be."

[dandeliongirl]

"Hn," Kotomi nodded in agreement, not so much resignation but acceptance of means she will have to take one year from now, as her own body changed little by little with every passing week.

"I will have to get used to being a dragon in Hikarizaka if my body becomes too imbued with magic to change back into a human, either for weeks or permanently," she then turned to Apple, "how does the projection you have work?"

[cidery]

"Yes, it depends on how strong the magic is here," said Apple. "But you can always visit another world if you want to stall the magic out."

"The projection comes from my gem," said Apple, tapping the apple shaped gemstone in her throat. "It makes up the core of what I am and projects the person I am outwards."

[onaroll]

As soon as the tray's down, Amelie swoops in and wraps both arms and several tails around Apple, spinning her around in a hug before placing a kiss on the side of her neck.

"Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime..."

Remember that sleepover at Waverly Bay? Amelie sure does.

[cidery]

"Ah oui, I remember the night we were together for the first time with our friends," said Apple with a giggle. "That was amazing fun."

She grinned, hugging her as she leaned into the motion. "What a year or three it's been."

[onaroll]

Amelie moves a little so she’s face-to-face with her wife and presses another kiss to her neck.

“May I have this dance?”

She punctuates the sentence with a series of kisses - left cheek, right cheek, mouth.

[cidery]

"But of course," replied Apple, replying in kind as she takes Amelie's hand in hers and she moves them out to the dance floor.

Bowing elegantly, she starts in on a elegant dance to the romantic music that was starting in, thanks to the DJ.

[onaroll]

As Amelie moves in rhythm with Apple, her Gem starts to glow, her ears and tails vanishing to be replaced by a pair of small horns and furry, goat-like legs studded with green leaves - her 'Faun' morph, based on a Skiddo. Taking Apple's hand, she twirls her around, each strike of her hooves against the floor creating large, trumpet-shaped pink and white flowers, which someone familiar with botany could identify as Apple Blossom Amaryllis.

[cidery]

Drawing on the themes of botany, a large apple tree bloomed into view as roses and hedges bloomed everywhere from the illusion set up from Apple's Gem. While transforming was not her major skill, her ability to draw from her friends was her strength and she drew imagery from her own fairy tale and Briar's, casting a delicate shadow of rose petals everywhere as she waltzed with Amelie.

[onaroll]

Roses, is it? Amelie can work with that...

Breaking away, Amelie spins on one hoof, a pink rose forming around her as she pirouettes. As it explodes in a flurry of petals, it reveals Amelie, wearing her Lilligant-inspired 'Dryad' morph - her legs replaced with a tulip-like arrangement of leaves, and a red flower with spotted petals and golden filaments resembling a crown on her head. She pirouettes back into Apple's arms and simultaneously casts a pair of spells - one a simple illusion of apple blossoms floating down from the ceiling to interlock with the amaryllis, and the other the one she learned from Mirai, to render them both weightless. She takes the lead in the dance, waltzing with Apple until they're halfway between the floor and the ceiling.

[cidery]

Apple moves in time with the dancing and the illusions, as well as Amelie's morphs, keeping time with the growing need to change the illusionary motifs on the go. She wasn't as practiced but a quick burst of Mummy powers and they spread sparkling bandages into a delicate web of ribbons, before a gentle net was produced. A virtual spiders web of gentle silk so to speak, as they lighted gently atop them, tiptoeing across the cascade of ribbons and bandages.

[onaroll]

Amelie leans in close to Apple and whispers in her ear, because this last one very much needs some warning.

"Mermaid, my love."

Her Gem glows as she spreads her illusory power out over the entire room, turning everything below Apple's web into the surface of a tropical sea. Spinning away, Amelie deliberately falls backwards into one of her hoops, bursting out of another a few moments later in her favorite Milotic-themed 'Mermaid' morph, accompanied by a spray of illusory water as if she'd just breached the surface. As she floats sinuously over to Apple, she spreads her illusion even farther, so that the entire room appears to be inside a tropical coral reef. A small gesture, and a spark of light that trails sparkles beneath it spirals up around Apple, hiding her long enough to complete her own mermaid-morph.

[cidery]

Fortunately Apple was prepared. With the floating charms set up, and the way that the false webbing was set, she adjusted the shimmer of the bandages to become transparent as they become a invisible net for them to "swim" across. Hooking one across her self and Amelie, she smiled, dancing along in a swimming motion as she drew on illusions of dancing fish and music playing Jamaican Crab Bands.

[onaroll]

As they spiral around each other, Amelie gives into temptation and dips Apple backwards for a kiss, winding her tail around her protectively.

There's a slight tugging sensation as Amelie lets down the last barrier and starts to dissolve into light.

[cidery]

Apple, too, dissolves into light as the pair merges and reforms into Ruby, the tall, four-armed experience standing proudly with a gleeful laugh as she spirals around, laughing happily at the rush of emotions.